happy thanksgiving

I just wanted to share pictures. Some are from thanksgiving and some are from this afternoon on her new swingset. Daddy just put it together this afternoon and it was such a nice day that we took her out to give it a try.

Here's a brief update on how things are going....she's been sleeping better, grunting much, much less, and smiling lots and lots. She's been a happy girl the last week or so, and was such a good girl over the holiday weekend.

a weekly update

I haven't updated because there's not much to update you on....she still has a cold, is still teething, and is still waking up multiple times at night. This, too shall pass....

During the day she's my happy, smiley girl, most of the time (except when she does her very loud, very annoying new little grunting noise to get our attention). She's discovered the joys of playing with pots and pans while Mommy cooks supper, though she doesn't quite get that you're supposed to bang the pan with the spoon to make the most effective noise, not drag the pan or the lid along the floor.

She's learning to drink from a sippy cup. I read a tip in a magazine that said to practice it in the bathtub, so if it dribbles, it doesn't matter. So that's what we've been doing. In addition to getting clean, she's also getting hydrated! She's getting better, and knows exactly what to do with the cup now when she sees it, though I have to help her hold it.

She's also begun eating Cheerios. She's getting better at picking them up with her thumb and index finger, but still needs work on getting it from the high chair tray to her mouth. She takes it up there, so she knows where it's supposed to go, but she either drops it in her lap at the last second, or it's stuck to the palm of her hand and won't go into her mouth. More Cheerios end up in the high chair seat or on the floor than in her mouth, but she's learning!

That's the update. Hopefully by next week I'll have good news that she's over her cold, sleeping better, and no longer grunting (her dad and I really don't like this new development!).

the streak really IS over...

The last two nights she's gotten up in the middle of the night. She has a cold and she's teething again, so I guess that's why. Oh well...the sleep was nice while it lasted.

Here's our precious girl...Daddy took the day off from work today. He was out raking leaves and wanted to take her pictures in the leaves. She loved them and couldn't stop trying to shove them in her mouth. Yuck!

And here she is in the "birthday chair" where we take her picture every month on the 9th, her birthday. She was seven months old yesterday.

I was wrong!!!

I've never been happier to be wrong. The streak ISN'T over! She did sleep last night. Yes, it was difficult to get her to sleep, but she slept all night long until waking up to eat this morning.

She still has a cold, but it doesn't seem as bad as it did last night when I wrote.

Hooray for being wrong!

the streak is over...

It's been a week since I last wrote. I thought I'd have good news to report, but I waited too long. She slept through the night for five nights in a row. It was a wonderful thing. Then today she got a runny nose. It ran and ran and ran some more. By the time it was bedtime, she could hardly breathe as she ate her last bottle. She went to bed a little early because she skipped her third nap (I think it's phasing out now), and went to sleep without too much fuss, but woke up coughing and then crying every hour or so. She went back to sleep each time until about 9:45. There was no going back to sleep that time. I went in to console her and she was WIDE awake. She got to come in and sit with Daddy while he watched TV while Mommy found the cold medicine. I don't know how much good it does, but I'm willing to try anything. It took me 45 minutes to get her back to sleep, after lots of coughing, sneezing, wiping her nose, suctioning out her nose, more crying, wiping her nose, whimpering, rubbing her eyes, staring at shadows on the wall from the night light in the hall, wiping her nose, fussing, coughing, spitting up, wiping her face....you get the idea. It was a long 45 minutes. Poor little girl. Now it's way past my bedtime, but I'm wide awake and waiting for her to start crying again any minute.

So the streak is over.... no more full night of sleep for Weed tonight.

Halloween

Here's another Halloween picture where she actually smiled. She "helped" pass out candy for about 30 minutes with Daddy (meaning she wore her costume, looked cute, and squirmed in Daddy's arms while he passed out candy), and then Mommy took her up and got her ready for bed--she was exhausted.